Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, Lidia Yuknavitch

5 reviews

noel_k's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Alcohol, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Abortion, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

iammmartina_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Child death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Pregnancy, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion, Grief, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Outing, Terminal illness, and Cancer

rbrano's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Really fantastic deep-dive into the mind of a woman who existed until she learned how to live. Deeply relatable at times, deeply harrowing at other times, in one moment downright unforgivable even with all of the context provided, and yet I walk away from the book feeling understood. 

Lots of trigger warnings should be listed, but I’ll just say that if you have any deep trauma, basically anything at all save perhaps personal experience with combat and war, you should proceed with caution. Personally I found it very healing to hear about a girl whose lives experience aligns so closely with mine as a child. It helped me to be angry and scared and helpless with her. It was deeply validating, especially to watch her stumble through adulthood after all of those years without the foundation that should have been built for her as a child.

This book was inspiring without being ham-fisted, tragic without being melodramatic, heartbreaking without being hopeless, and above all, an artistic expression of a woman who should have never made it to where she did but did anyway.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Child death, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Car accident, Grief, Incest, and Physical abuse

djschnitzer's review against another edition

It was incoherent. Disjointed. Must still be drunk. Disgusting vulgar see scenes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

jovana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction and Cursing